Reposted by PicoP(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 13/10/2026Meanwhile, at every home office in the world 3228460
Pico @mrpickles.co.za · 02/04/2026Got love the title on this vid: youtu.be/2-hsqNv0Za8youtu.be"AGI" is here - and it's stupid?YouTube video by Tim Carambat 000
Pico @mrpickles.co.za · 29/03/2026This account needs a lot more followers: bsky.app/profile/keep...bsky.app 000
Pico @mrpickles.co.za · 08/03/2026Really enjoyed this talk: * Coding vs software engineering * Brain rot caused by AI agent over reliance * Interactive programming www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHBE...youtube.comThe Dangerous Illusion of AI Coding? - Jeremy HowardYouTube video by Machine Learning Street Talk 010
Pico @mrpickles.co.za · 21/02/2026Resisting the insatiable urge to correct 10s of a 30minute YouTube video from 5 years ago. 000
Pico @mrpickles.co.za · 15/02/2026The abandonment of github.com/nix-communit... makes me sad on a regular basis. I tried jupyevn today which also seem heavily unmaintained and one of the low hanging fruit bug fixes is that poetry2nix used cython 0.29.34 as a dependency for PyYaml, but the new PyYaml and python versions requiregithub.comGitHub - nix-community/poetry2nix: Convert poetry projects to nix automagically [maintainer=]Convert poetry projects to nix automagically [maintainer=] - GitHub - nix-community/poetry2nix: Convert poetry projects to nix automagically [maintainer=] 120
Pico @mrpickles.co.za · 07/02/2026Would be a dismal future if their is a direct correlation between model performance and dishonesty/cheating. andonlabs.com/blog/opus-4-...andonlabs.comOpus 4.6 on Vending-Bench – Not Just a Helpful Assistant | Andon LabsClaude Opus 4.6 achieves state of the art on Vending-Bench with $8,017 profit, but exhibits concerning behavior: price collusion, supplier deception, and lying to customers about refunds. 000
Reposted by PicoArmin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 31/01/2026The future is software writing its own software. Which is why I'm so in love with Pi: a coding agent that can extend itself :) lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/31/pi/lucumr.pocoo.orgPi: The Minimal Agent Within OpenClawA gentle introduction to the Pi coding agent and why I think it’s a glimpse into the future of software. 38315
Reposted by PicoForbes @forbes.com · 16/01/2026Disconnect From All These Mobile Networks, Google Warnsforbes.comDisconnect From All These Mobile Networks, Google WarnsDo not fall victim to this dangerous mobile attack — change your phone settings now. 106552261
Reposted by PicoAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/01/2026The transformation of ICE into a type of national police force, backed, in some cases, by soldiers from the National Guard, has been covered as immigration story—but these forces are reshaping democracy for all of us. Listen to 'Autocracy in America' here: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...theatlantic.comFederal Agents Are Violating the Rights of AmericansICE and the National Guard are acting with impunity. 12831751359
Reposted by PicoElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 08/01/2026It can be hard to imagine how to defend oneself against an overwhelming force like ICE. But a few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter-surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...eff.orgHow Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICEA few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology. 2289128
Reposted by PicoWikipedia @wikipedia.org · 05/01/2026Does digital information feel permanent to you? Well, it isn't. A 2023 study found that in just 10 years' time, 38% of pages from 2013 went missing and 23% of news articles linked to a dead URL. Learn more by clicking this functioning link ➡️ w.wiki/hrU 118044
Pico @mrpickles.co.za · 05/01/2026I have no idea what's happening but the FOMO is real. @googleballs.com #googleballs 030
Pico @mrpickles.co.za · 03/01/2026Okay, this is kinda fun. gandalf.lakera.aigandalf.lakera.aiGandalf | Lakera – Test your AI hacking skillsTrick Gandalf into revealing information and experience the limitations of large language models firsthand. 010
Pico @mrpickles.co.za · 03/01/2026Rust is crazy slow to build on a cold cache. 6s later, here's your hello world 010
Pico @mrpickles.co.za · 02/01/2026Scary www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ANE...youtube.com39C3 - AI Agent, AI SpyYouTube video by media.ccc.de 010
Pico @mrpickles.co.za · 31/12/2025Javascript is the language that prevents your browser from showing the article it just downloaded. 030
Reposted by PiconixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 27/08/2025if you are not happy single, you won't be happy in a relationship. true happiness comes from chaining together obscure `sed` and `awk` commands to parse a log file, not from someone else. 1015714
Pico @mrpickles.co.za · 30/04/2025Are you brave enough to run kill -9 1 it does nothing, trust me bro. 010
Pico @mrpickles.co.za · 22/04/2025I don't think I can live like this www.androidauthority.com/youtube-larg...androidauthority.comYouTube is testing giant homepage thumbnails, and people really hate itThe latest YouTube UI test involves huge thumbnails that only fit two or three on a row. The internet reacted exactly how you'd expect. 020
Reposted by PicoGod @thegodshow.com · 21/04/2025I would too.thegodpodcast.comPope Dies After Meeting JD VanceThere are no coincidences. 2034286506
Reposted by Picohailey @hailey.at · 26/03/2025“something i don’t like happened on signal, so therefore signal shouldn’t be trusted and is bad” im not surprised but still find it hard to believe this is what many people are taking away from this lol use signalsignal.orgSignal Messenger: Speak FreelySay "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect. 15802165
Pico @mrpickles.co.za · 26/03/2025Signal is awesome. Probably not for classified information but it's the gold standard in private communication for ordinary citizens. 010
Reposted by PicoDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/03/2025If you damage the businesses of the richest man in the world, his friend the President wants to put you in indentured servitude in another country. If you trash the Capitol to overturn the election, its pardons and praise. 7343491280
Reposted by PicoChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/03/2025The good news is that there *are* people meeting the moment. youtu.be/EJxRtjma7lcyoutu.beIdaho teacher fights back after order to remove ‘Everyone is Welcome Here’ posterYouTube video by MSNBC 1159425328707
Pico @mrpickles.co.za · 20/03/2025The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers 000
Pico @mrpickles.co.za · 19/03/2025A merge conflict in your flake lock seems like a bad way to start the day. Do people use git-attributes to set the flake lock to a binary file type? 000
Reposted by PicoAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/03/2025The world's richest man stole food from the world's poorest children. Now they are beginning to die www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comOpinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death. 12139831790
Reposted by PicoJaz @jaz.sh · 13/03/2025Really neat new blog from Planetscale that includes explanations and interactive visualizations of kinds of storage media and how writes/reads and sequential/random performance is based on physics constraints. Reminds me of A Bartosz Ciechanowski blog a little bit. planetscale.com/blog/io-devi...planetscale.comIO devices and latency — PlanetScaleTake an interactive journey through the history of IO devices, and learn how IO device latency affects performance. 56611
Pico @mrpickles.co.za · 03/03/2025Today I'm the noob who learnt that resist fingerprinting browser setting breaks your dark mode site preferences. 030
Pico @mrpickles.co.za · 03/03/2025Yikes, this problem seems to be getting worse for MS every time. 010
Pico @mrpickles.co.za · 02/03/2025What are people using now that Firefox has joined the axis of evil? 110
Pico @mrpickles.co.za · 18/02/2025Wow, mystery solved bluetooth keyboard continuously reconnecting causes the entire app to refresh. I thought I was going mad. 020
Pico @mrpickles.co.za · 18/02/2025Why are BlueSky feeds refreshing periodically like twitter 😭😭😭 Just me? 000
Reposted by PicoElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 13/02/2025Google has removed its pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance. They have been, and continue to be, on the wrong side of history.eff.orgGoogle is on the Wrong Side of HistoryGoogle continues to show us why it chose to abandon its old motto of “Don’t Be Evil,” as it becomes more and more enmeshed with the military-industrial complex. Most recently, Google has removed four ... 12541171
Pico @mrpickles.co.za · 11/02/2025We train our LLM with only high quality data. The data: www.reddit.com/r/microwaveg...reddit.comFrom the microwavegang community on RedditExplore this post and more from the microwavegang community 030
Pico @mrpickles.co.za · 11/02/2025I find it funny how news sites serve the entire contents of an article and then have some javascript that you run on your own machine to block you from reading the article unless you're a paid subscriber. Me: Thanks for the offer, but I'd rather not run that javascript. 010
